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Home Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“Home Farm, also known as the Mirriam-Bartholomew House, is a historic home and farm complex located at East Whitehall in Washington County, New York. The house was built about 1840 and consists of a two-story, five-bay, center entrance brick main block with a rear brick kitchen wing in the Greek Revival style.”

Wikipedia article Home Farm (East Whitehall, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 2008 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Address. 591 Co. Rt. 18, East Whitehall, 12887
  • When was it listed? December 2008
  • Category. building
  • Town. Whitehall town
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 08001147 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

99 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Home Farm between 1995 and 2020, burning about 182 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 15 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined48
Arson/incendiarism15
Debris and open burning14
Natural10
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
27 September 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined62 acresVermont Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 August 2011Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Home Farm: 22 past producers, 15 producers. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Slate, Dimension, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ritchie Brothers QuarryGranitePast ProducerGranite
Arana Marble Co. MineLimestone, GeneralPast Producer1897
Smiths Basin QuarriesLimestone, GeneralPast Producer1882, 1925
Hampton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mccullen Slate Quarry No. 1 & 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Natural Slate QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Tunnel QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Whitehall QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSandstone
Alliance and Bungaloo QuarriesStone, DimensionProducerMetamorphic
Eureka QuarryStone, DimensionProducerMetamorphic

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

6 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Whitehall, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2009 and 2021: 2 flash flood, 2 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2020Flash FloodEast Whitehall$16,000,000The Whitehall Central Schools' Superintendent reported that 100 percent of the Junior-Senior High School had flood waters inside, resulting in major damage.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindEast Whitehall-Wires were reported down on Park Avenue.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindEast Whitehall-Trees were downed on wires along Route 12/Upper Turnpike Road. Time was estimated by radar.
January 2019FloodEast Whitehall-Gray Lane at Upper Turnpike Road was closed due to flooding along the Mettawee River.
July 2017FloodEast Whitehall-Heavy rainfall caused rapid rises on the Mettawee River near Granville. The river crested at 9.95 feet, just below major flood stage. At 3:30 am EST, the river began to flood low-lying fields adjacent to the river bank. At 4:30 am EST, Upper Turnpike Road was covered in water on both sides of the bridge over the Mettawee, and Grey Lane had washed out. The water receded later that morning.
July 2009Flash FloodEast Whitehall-Upper Turnpike Road in Whitehall was closed due to flash flooding from very heavy rainfall.

Every storm recorded in Washington County

Maps showing this location

13 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Whitehall Armory3.4 miles1995
Judge Joseph Potter House3.7 miles1974
Main Street Historic District3.8 miles1975
William Miller Farm Historic District (Boundary Increase)3.8 miles1994
Whitehall Fire Station3.8 miles2018
William Miller Chapel and Ascension Rock3.8 miles1975

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 08001147 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington CountyAll 52 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.